81m; Venezuela
Director: Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler
Synopsis: Venezuelan workers worker democracy/takeover of factories.
Category Archives: Documentary
The Flickering Flame (1997)
U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Synopsis: Liverpool dockworkers’ strike.
Folk America: This Land Is Your Land (2009)
60m; U.S.
Director: Jill Nicholls
Synopsis: Part 2 of the documentary series tracing the history of American folk music. In this installment: The 1930s saw folk redefined as the voice of protest under the aegis of Woody Guthrie.
For A Six Hour Workday (2004)
20m; Argentina
Director: Grupo Alavio & MarieTrigona
Synopsis: Documents the efforts by Buenos Aires transit workers to re-introduce the 6 hour day after the military dictatorship had destroyed the labor conditions.
Fourth Battle of Winchester (1957)
16m; U.S.
Synopsis: Describes the circumstances which caused over 400 workers at the O’Sullivan Rubber Company in Winchester, VA, to strike on 5/13/56 to preserve their union.
Free Cinema [Short Film Collection] (1950s-60s)
Synopsis (BFI): The BFI has compiled for the first time, the definitive collection of films from the 1950s’ Free Cinema movement. Free Cinema not only re-invented British documentary making, but this highly influential period in the country’s cinema history was the precursor for the better known British New Wave of social-realist films in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The films were ‘free’ in the sense that they were made outside the framework of the film industry, and that their statements were entirely personal . They had in common not only the conditions of their production (shoestring budget, unpaid crew) and the equipment they employed (usually hand-held 16mm Bolex cameras), but also a style and attitude and an experimental approach to sound. Mostly funded by the BFI’s Experimental Film Fund, they featured ordinary, mostly working-class people at work and play, displaying a rare sympathy and respect, and a self-consciously poetic style.
Website: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_150.html
Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists (1980)
60m; U.S.
Director: Steven Fischler & Joel Sucher
Synopsis: Documentary of the Jewish Anarchists in the New York garment industry and their newspaper the Freie Arberiter Stimme.
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
105m; U.S.
Director: Connie Field & Marilyn Mulford
Synopsis: Documentary about the civil rights movement, focusing on the Mississippi Freedom Summer voter registration project.
We are the 99 percent (2012)
Director: Shabnam Hameed
Synopsis: We are the 99% is about (extra)ordinary working people who struggle to change the system in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Nurses, Jill and Maria set up a medical tent disobeying council ordinances to provide care for people who could not afford treatment.
Workers Peter and Julian fight for basic working conditions.
Sparrow faces the dilemma of how to sustain a democracy when racial tensions explode.
Over the course of 2 months, in the microcosm of Zuccotti Park they endeavour to create a good society and ultimately are brutally evicted igniting a world wide movement.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3v6qbZw9o
Shabnam Hameed
+61 (0) 415 817 931 (Australia)
SKYPE: shabnamhameed
shabnam.hameed@gmail.com
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